Quotes About Adaptation

each emotion prepares the body for a very different kind of response:7

academic intelligence offers virtually no preparation for the turmoil—or opportunity—life's vicissitudes bring.

key competencies match a given organization's reality. Each company and each industry has its own emotional ecology, and the most adaptive traits for workers will differ accordingly.

The organizations that compete internally will not be successful in the future.

The slow, deliberate forces of evolution that have shaped our emotions have done their work over the course of a million years; the last 10,000 years, despite having witnessed the rapid rise of human civilization and the explosion of the human population from five million to five billion, have left little imprint on our biological templates for emotional life.

So many of us suffer because we are trying to live the life we once had or the life we wish for. Life is much sweeter when we live the life we have

change is inevitable, and when it happens, the wisest response is not to wail or whine but to suck it up and deal with it.

Gwen didn't have to ask about the Fall. It happened to all old people, the Fall. They fell and then everything changed[...]They fell and never quite got up again.

No battle plan survives first contact. And the only way out is through. All

Caring less about things that used to matter because no one else seems to care. And that's the moment you start to see all those precious differences slip away." "So

had reached a new level, and anger and suspicion were my first reactions to the world around me. Burt's

Você não pode construir um novo edifício em uma área até destruir o que existia antes, e o antigo Charlie não pode ser destruído. Ele existe.

Im mixd up but Miss Kinnian says dont worry spelling is not suppose to make sence.

Algernon is so smart he has to solve a problem with a lock that changes every time he goes in to eat so he has to lern something new to get his food. That made me sad because if he coulnt lern he wouldnt be able to eat and he would be hungry.

You can't put up a building on a site until you destroy the old one, and the old Charlie can't be destroyed.

Anna Bergman in Private Confessions], unlike her mother... has never been able to tame her fantasies of what life ought to be like, to adapt the role she yearns to enact to the play she finds herself in.

Nothing is fixed; she gets hooked by, hooks onto, nothing.

like a duck going to water without its feathers getting wet.

The greatest discovery any alien anthropologist could make about our culture is our overriding response to failure: If it didn't work last year, do it AGAIN this year (and if possible do it MORE)

Diversity is a survival factor for the community itself. A community of a hundred million species can survive almost anything short of a global catastrophe.

The community of life that we see here at any given time isn't just a random collection. It's a collection of successes. It's the remainder that is left over when the failures have disappeared.

The world will not be saved by old minds with new programs. If the world is saved, it will be saved by new minds—with no programs.

I mean that in the absence of food, baboons will organize themselves to find a meal, but in the absence of leopards they will never organize themselves to find a leopard.

The rules that govern competition between species are (and must be) very different from the rules that govern competition within species.